Well I'd hate to turn Strangler's thread into a Monkey Ball discussion
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Originally posted by Stonecutter
You know that even with that tactic it's still more a matter of luck than skill right?
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Um not it isn't... If it was more luck, than I must be REALLY lucky to be able to beat it 95% of the time.
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How bout the level where theres like 100 different switches, and if you pick the wrong one, you die, the true definition of trial and error gameplay.
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I think there is a way to find out what switch to hit by watching for the one that doesn't light up or something, but once you find it out you never need to worry about that level. It's the one on the last row on the right, the third going down.
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Oh, and then theres that one with the goal on top of the giant column and the 4 little sliders on the bottom that rocket you foreward and up, how many times did it take you to beat that POS level?
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About three tries. You have to hold back when you're getting shot up, then you use the little mini camera to see where you're landing. Land on top of the big cylinder and use the camera again to see when to fall into the goal. There's an even easier method if you want to get the warp goal.
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Or the ones where there's a switch at the beginning that slows the level down? They're impossible without that switch but way too easy with the switch. Once you "find" it the first time (because the developers are clever see, they "hide" the switch behind the camera at the start) you look for it on every level.
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Yeah I don't like this either.
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OH! what about that other level, the one set on the level with the washing machine background where you have to go to the top of that one platform and fling yourself off towards the goal?
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Yeah, what ABOUT that level? I find it okay, and I don't know if you're trying to say it's hard or something, but you just hold back when you drop and then you'll bounce off the bottom of that platform, then roll forward up the platform where the goal is and you go straight through. Unless you're talking about another level...
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Believe it or not there are even MORE moronic stages that are more "challenging" than that, and I only made it though about 65 of them before I gave up, that's 35 pieces of **** still to go.
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So you suck at the game, what's the point? You missed out on some awesome levels in the Master Mode.
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Super Monkey Ball 1 is brilliance personified on a disc, SMB2 is lazy, ****ty developers cashing in on a hot product.
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SMB 1 may have a better one player mode, but that doesn't mean SMB 2's isn't good. If you never played SMB 2 then you couldn't make the comparison between the two and you'd probably have enjoyed the SMB 2 levels.
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Again, the mini games are brilliant and if you can find the game for 20$ or less it's worth picking up for that alone, just don't expect much from one player in SMB2
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It seems to me that you just can't beat a lot of the levels. How can most of the levels be based off luck when I beat beat almost every level on my first try? And a lot of other people can too. Must be a lot of lucky people.